Torsten Hoefler’s blog

From the ‘Bicycle Neglect Series‘: “In fact, young Cascadians don’t even match the bicycling levels of Germans over the age of 75. That’s right: Germans in their late seventies and eighties bike more—on 7 percent of all trips—than Cascadian teens and twenty-somethings.” … “Cascadia, especially its populous heartland stretching from the Willamette Valley through Puget [...]

We’ve been to another State Park this Sunday. It was great, we hiked the whole day and got totally lost in the wilderness (there were deer paths that looked like human paths ). The waterfall is really ridiculous (see picture), but the wolf cave is really cool.

It’s a small (very small) tunnel-like cave where [...]

Yes, right …. somebody broke into my room and stole (nearly) all my electronics. Only the GPS is left and two laptops (one was the lab’s), a cell, an MP3-Player and my lovely Palm PDA are gone . That sucks … I hate this house. Especially those windows, I am able to open the [...]

Don’t drink wine, beer, rum, beer, beer, beer and vodka shots at the same evening … it’s gonna be embarrassing. You may think you’re tough, but you aren’t! Remember that!

This deserves it’s own post because it reflects what I have to watch every day :
The Soft American by John F. Kennedy

Yeah, after a very very very nice independence day last year, I’m trying to repeat this experience . We’ll see. I’m right in the middle of it – and the parade is over. It was as bad as last year (actually slightly worse). But I have some pictures this time for you to enjoy [...]

Yeah, we biked to Lake Monroe on Saturday . The bike ride was great even if we lost our way due to my misinterpretation of “Moores Pike”. I know I know … American cities are organized in grids and one can not get lost. But somebody decided to rename streets in the middle of [...]